Archive of HTML5
FinTech New York Hackathon Round-Up
FinTech Round-Up After some much needed sleep we’re able to reflect on the inspired (and at times manic) hacking that took place this weekend in New York. Over 30 teams presented their demos competing for the grand prize of $10,000 from Novus. Hack Projects The various hacking projects can be…
Read MoreFinTech Hackathon NYC – Live Blog
4:45PM – We Have a FinTech Hackathon Winner! 4:30PM – Prize for best use of Caplin Technology The winner was a team calling themselves FinGraph – they did an interesting visualization of quoted companies that created a spider diagram showing their key supplier/partner relationships (e.g. Apple and AMD). They used…
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Testing by Contract in StreamLink JS
StreamLink for Browsers (SL4B) is the JavaScript library that we use to stream data from our server-side Liberator to our client side applications. It provides a simple API for client applications to interact with the financial (or other) data that they are interested in. StreamLink for Browsers is one of the…
Read MoreWebDriver, Chrome and Comet Servers
After spending about 3 hours of my day smashing my head against a really tricky little problem in WebDriver I thought I better just write a quick blog to try and warn other weary travellers. Symptom The WebDriver findElements() function was incredibly slow. Sometimes it wouldn’t return, and other times…
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Limited plumbing hampering your ability to build HTML5 apps ?
Most enterprise-scale language environments such as Java or .net, provide features like single-class-per-file (with on-demand loading); isolation; privacy and namespacing of code; refactoring capabilities; UI paradigms, encouraging separation of concerns; unit and acceptance testing tools with integrated debugging, etc… JavaScript and HMTL5 have none of these built in! Consider using…
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HTML5: everyone’s doing it!
The Next Web have reported on a survey by Kendo UI that 82% of developers think HTML5 is important to their jobs now or within the next 12 months. What’s interesting is the relatively large survey size (about 4000 developers), which immediately makes me take a bit more notice than a…
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Microsoft Surface : A new platform for mobile HTML5 apps?
Today is launch day for Windows 8 and the many laptop / tablet hybrids that will come along with it. The slightly in your face metro UI is a big gamble for MS but it certainly looks touch friendly so I am very keen to give it a go on…
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The Pain of HTML5
One of the essential problems with any new technology is whether to adopt it and diabolically abandon users who are not able to upgrade or miss out on new possibilities and eventually become irrelevant. The middle way of course is to fly to the latest technologies as soon as they…
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